 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 21edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves Not our delights alone, but loves : From thy shop... | |
 | William Drummond, Peter Cunningham - 1833 - 354 pages
...bears the happier share. Of this Johnson says, the numbers are musical, and the thoughts are just. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme ! Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage; without o'erflowiug, full.* WALLER TO VANDYKE. Rare Artisan, whose... | |
 | H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 pages
...the vallies bring A welcome succour ', with a liberal hand Bestowing plenty to a burning land. " Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream " My great example, as it is my theme !" DENHAM. THE Cavery rises in the mountains which divide the Southern Peninsula of India, and after... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pages
...explains John Denham's requirement, as he apostrophized the Thames, that form not obstruct thought: 'O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream / My great...theme! / Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.1 Depth with clarity, variety without confusion,... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...on in the seventeenth century, Sir John Denham, with neoclassical tact, would merely predicate ("O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream / My great example, as it is my theme") and safely rhyme with the name of a synecdoche, rather than more powerfully and Spenserianly punning... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - 1992 - 341 pages
...It is a question that recalls John Denham's "famous apostrophe"44 to the Thames in Cooper's Hill: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full.45 To make poetry like reality, to imitate... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 pages
...throughout the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth. In them he offered the Thames as a model: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. (11. 189-92) The poem had first appeared in... | |
 | 1894 - 926 pages
...January, 1893. the metaphor from the ship to the river, yon may quote Denham and say : — " Oh, oonld I flow like thee, and make thy stream MY great example...; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full." Each generation has its own authorities and teachers. I quote Tennyson now ; fifty years ago I thought... | |
 | Robert Fitzgerald - 1993 - 332 pages
...contemporaries, and in place of greater touchstones Dryden was fond of quoting Denham's lines on the Thames: O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full. He was also fond of alluding to Waller as... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...the Mersey emulates a "classic" tide, perhaps the following neoclassic locus classicus: O could I flo like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull Strong without rage, without oreflowing full. Denham reinscribes the ancient Ciceronian topos,... | |
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